Essays Tagged: "Western Canada"

How Climatic Changes Effect Society

nstruction. Other resources include oil and animals (livestock). In the focus of wood, there is the Western Canadian Boreal Forest which is a large producer of wood for the United States construction ... ects on the construction industry. Compared to eastern Canada, the southern boreal forest region of western Canada has a relatively dry climate. Thus, drought effects are one of the major concerns bei ...

(3 pages) 112 0 3.0 Feb/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Turn of the Century: Canada's Immagration.

ng a comprehensive program to attract people to Canada, and by 1900, over 45,000 immigrants came to western Canada. This massive advertising campaign relied mainly on pamphlets and poster distributed ... Before the beginning of the First World War, Canada received 2 million immigrants that changed the Western part of Canada forever.Immigrating to Canada was not for everyone. Canadian governments were ...

(4 pages) 106 2 2.4 May/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > Canadian History

Comparing the Novel "Anne of Green Gables" to "In spite of myself" by L.M.Montgomery .

ashioned values and concerns, a world that we enter into gladly. The master storyteller takes us to western Canada as well as to her beloved Prince Edward Island, where she incorporates her own life e ...

(5 pages) 40 1 3.4 Sep/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

How the fur trade was a significant part of Canadian history, and the role of the native females during the fur-trade.

d Northwest Company during the1670's, the fur trade managed growth and development all the way into Western Canada until 1870. The fur trade was unique, for it was the only industry that was based on ... ved they were "made for labor; and one of them can carry, or haul, as mush as two men can do"(Kirk (Western), 18). Europeans on the other hand did not see their wives back in Europe as strong workers. ...

(5 pages) 89 0 5.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Famous Canadians:Charles Saunders biography first person.

pply 400 prairie farmers. A year later Marquis wheat seeds were distributed to over 2000 farmers in Western Canada. The original wheat that populated Western Canada was Red fife wheat, the problem wit ... ned 20 days quicker than Red fife and it made much better bread. Marquis had an immediate impact in Western Canada by raising wheat production greatly and made Western Canada a major world producer of ...

(2 pages) 35 0 3.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > Canadian History

The Exportation of Fresh Water in Western Canada

The Exportation of Fresh Water in Western CanadaFresh water is something that almost every human, plant and animal needs to survive. U ... ns that the water is not frozen in glaciers, ice sheets, or simply too far underground to reach. In western Canada, most of the water we use comes from lakes. Vancouver, for example, gets almost all o ...

(2 pages) 29 0 3.0 Jun/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

Policy

h OPEC countries for its Crude oil export. Canada has good quantity of gas and petroleum reserve in western Canada. Alberta alone produces about 80% of the total crude oil production (International en ...

(3 pages) 52 0 0.0 Nov/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

Leasership Analysis of WestJet Airlines

of Clive Beddoe, Tim Morgan, Don Bell and Mark Hill realizing an opportunity to satisfy the need in Western Canada for a low cost, customer service oriented airline. They built the company through the ... inue to expand into the eastern Canadian or U.S. markets which are significantly different than the Western Canadian culture and geographically stretched from the influences of the Calgary home of Wes ...

(13 pages) 131 0 3.0 Dec/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

History of the Canadian Pacific Railroad If the railroad had not been built at the time that it was, the Americans instead of Canadians would have capitalized on the vaste wealth of the prairies.

t's first push in the international market place. The railroad was the key factor in connecting the western part of the country with the east and central parts. If construction of the Canadian Pacific ... d had not happened at the time it did would the United States have capitalized on the fact that the western Canada was ripe for the picking? During the 1850's Canada had only about 200 miles of ...

(4 pages) 26 0 0.0 Apr/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > Canadian History

Canadian Study of Western Canada prior to WWII.

Western Canada During The Great Depression:Politics and EconomyOctober 24, 1929 had an immense impac ... during the Great Depression. As a result of the economic turmoil of North America, and particularly Western Canada, a cacophony of unbalance erupted. Chaos was present not only in the monetary scheme, ... certain political organizations. The extensive disembowelment of everything familiar to the typical western Canadian resulted in severities unique to the prairies west.The abruptness of the stock mark ...

(17 pages) 41 0 4.3 Oct/2005

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Regionalism and it's Effect on a Unified Canadian Identity

this can be seen through thegeography of this country. The natural land forms which are present in Western Canada, such asthe prairies, are much different from say the coastal proximity, for example, ... ries and Atlantic Canada (1992): 18-364)Thomas Dunk, "Racism, Regionalism, and Common Sense in Northwestern Ontario," Social Relations in Resource Hinterlands (1991): 204-2215)Dr. Brian Payne. "Chapte ...

(7 pages) 44 0 0.0 Nov/2006

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

The Arctic Zone

directly to carbon dioxideemissions and their greenhouse gases. The study concluded that in Alaska,Western Canada, and eastern Russia, average temperatures have increased byas much as 4 to 7 degrees ...

(8 pages) 25 0 5.0 Jan/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences

CIMA

oots as the top quality product at each price point.• Cima boots are distributed in 10 western states and western Canada through specialty retailers.• Promotions are directed ...

(5 pages) 29 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

CIMA

oots as the top quality product at each price point.• Cima boots are distributed in 10 western states and western Canada through specialty retailers.• Promotions are directed ...

(5 pages) 18 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

"women In Between"

(Women in between): Indian Women in Fur Trade Society in Western Canada," is an article written by Sylvia Van Kirk, who has done a significant amount of rese ... ho has done a significant amount of research on the Indian women's role in the fur trade society in Western Canada. In Van Kirk's article, she makes an argument by showing how unhappy the Indian women ... on topic and stuck to her argument, which focussed on a woman's role in the fur trading society of Western Canada.

(6 pages) 7 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

The Extent of Immigration on Canadian History

ere it is now, such as the Quebec Act and the Act of Union (Laferriere). The European settlement of Western Canada also had a strong effect on the shaping of Canadian identity.The many ideas British i ... on has played a very key role in defining Canadian identity, government, language, and religion.The Western Plains of Canada were practically uninhabited, excluding the Natives who lived there, until ...

(4 pages) 22 0 4.3 Feb/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > Canadian History

Telus Strategic Initiative Paper

ng costs.On May 7 2009, Telus has reached an agreement with Bell to provide satellite TV service to Western Canada. The agreement will see Telus selling Bell's satellite TV service to customers in Bri ... ke a closer look at some of their competitors. One could say that a growing competitor for Telus in western Canada is Shaw Communications Inc. Shaw in recent years has been promoting a digital telepho ...

(4 pages) 76 0 0.0 Jun/2009

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies